{"id":14214,"date":"2024-07-23T23:41:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T04:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=14214"},"modified":"2024-07-23T23:41:00","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T04:41:00","slug":"qatar-airways-announces-order-for-20-more-boeing-777-9-passenger-jets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=14214","title":{"rendered":"Qatar Airways Announces Order for 20 More Boeing 777-9 Passenger Jets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span class=\"legendSpanClass\">Image from Boeing<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"legendSpanClass\">Farnborough International Airshow, <span class=\"xn-location\">United Kingdom<\/span><\/span>, <span class=\"legendSpanClass\"><span class=\"xn-chron\">July 23, 2024<\/span><\/span>, PRNewswire<\/strong> &#8211; Boeing and Qatar Airways announced today the Middle Eastern airline&#8217;s order for 20 more 777-9 airplanes, which will be the world&#8217;s largest and most fuel-efficient twin-engine jet. The order, which expands the carrier&#8217;s 777X order book to nearly 100 airplanes, was finalized this year and listed as unidentified on Boeing&#8217;s Orders &amp; Deliveries website.<\/p>\n<p>The award-winning airline helped launch the 777X program and now has on order 60 777-9 passenger airplanes. Qatar Airways is also the inaugural launch customer for the 777-8 Freighter and has 34 of the next generation cargo jet on order.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, Boeing began certification flight testing for the 777-9, which will offer a new level of passenger comfort with a spacious cabin, better humidity, a quiet environment and increased natural light.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Boeing 777X arrival in Qatar | Qatar Airways\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aHk2-sAED8U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image from Boeing Farnborough International Airshow, United Kingdom, July 23, 2024, PRNewswire &#8211; Boeing and Qatar Airways announced today the Middle Eastern airline&#8217;s order for 20 more 777-9 airplanes, which will be the world&#8217;s largest and most fuel-efficient twin-engine jet. The order, which expands the carrier&#8217;s 777X order book to nearly 100 airplanes, was finalized [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14215,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aviation-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14216,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14214\/revisions\/14216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}